Muslim representation books

Muslim kids deserve ordinary days on the page: a hijab the color of the sky, a quilt of language, faith in the room without a glossary taped to the cover. This hub is not a briefing, and it is not only a holiday book.

We look for Muslim characters as people. We skip titles that exist to explain Islam to everyone else. We skip fear as the only plot. Pride can go first. The unkind comment does not get to own the page.

Doors in

The Proudest Blue is a first day of school and a sister watching. Ask what made Faizah proud before anyone else said a word. The Arabic Quilt is a classroom where a new kid's words become the room's words. Both also live on other hubs, because lives are not one tag.

This is one of the smaller shelves in the catalog on purpose. We would rather be incomplete than pad it with books that only mention a mosque in passing. If you have a correction or a title we should review, email us.

How we talk after the book

If a cruel word comes out, correct the fact without humiliating the speaker, then reread the page that showed the person as a person. Do not end on the scolding. Method: after the last page.